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This NSFW Rembrandt etching is titled Monk In The Cornfields. Is that correct? When was corn introduced to Europe and would Rembrandt have seen it? NSFW

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How would one define positivist historiography?

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Is Foucault right in saying that negative attitudes against being the submissive partner in male homosexual intercourse comes from Ancient Rome?

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What are some good histories of childhood and children that overturn the idea that children were seen as less valuable in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe?

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Why is Yorkshire so much bigger than the other English counties?

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What's the story behind the 1919 'liberation' of Fiume by Italian Nationalists?

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Is there any evidence that Freud was aware of the works of Marquis de Sade or Retif de la Bretonne, two authors who went about categorizing and listing sexual fetishes in the eighteenth century?

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Why were so many early books in dialogue format, with one character speaking to the other, usually in instructional format? Is there a history of this style? What are its effects?

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Why is it claimed that the clitoris was only 'discovered' in the 17th century?

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How did Victorian culture change with the first world war?

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This NSFW Rembrandt etching is titled Monk In The Cornfields. Is that correct? When was corn introduced to Europe and would Rembrandt have seen it? NSFW	17
How would one define positivist historiography?	17
Is Foucault right in saying that negative attitudes against being the submissive partner in male homosexual intercourse comes from Ancient Rome?	17
What are some good histories of childhood and children that overturn the idea that children were seen as less valuable in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe?	16
Why is Yorkshire so much bigger than the other English counties?	16
What's the story behind the 1919 'liberation' of Fiume by Italian Nationalists?	16
Is there any evidence that Freud was aware of the works of Marquis de Sade or Retif de la Bretonne, two authors who went about categorizing and listing sexual fetishes in the eighteenth century?	16
Why were so many early books in dialogue format, with one character speaking to the other, usually in instructional format? Is there a history of this style? What are its effects?	15
Why is it claimed that the clitoris was only 'discovered' in the 17th century?	14
How did Victorian culture change with the first world war?	13